Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2336-1001418795-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4076 invoked by uid 510); 25 Sep 2001 11:53:34 -0000 Received: from n3.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.53) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 11:53:34 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2336-1001418795-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by hj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 25 Sep 2001 11:53:15 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 25 Sep 2001 11:53:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 41274 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2001 11:53:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Sep 2001 11:53:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 11:53:13 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id EAA23496 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:53:13 -0700 Message-Id: <200109251153.EAA23496@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Army.alert.by.Iraq.regime.suggests.Baghdad.links] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Army alert by Iraq regime suggests Baghdad links <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/2001/09/24/FFX525EQXRC.html">http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/2001/09/24/FFX525EQXRC.html> By JESSICA BERRY JERUSALEM Monday 24 September 2001 Saddam Hussein put his troops on their highest military alert since the Gulf War two weeks before the suicide attacks on America, the strongest indication yet that the Iraqi leader knew an atrocity was planned. Since the attacks, the Iraqi leader has allegedly been providing al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, with funding, logistical back-up and advanced weapons training. His operations reached a "frantic pace" in the past few months, according to Western intelligence officials. President Saddam has remained out of the public eye in his network of bunkers since the military alert at the end of August, and moved his two wives away from the presidential palaces in Baghdad to Tikrit. The CIA also claims to have proof that bin Laden aides were in contact with Iraqi intelligence in the days before the New York outrage. One intelligence official said that there had been nothing obvious to warrant President Saddam's declaration of "Alert G", Iraq's highest state of readiness. "He was clearly expecting a massive attack, and it leads you to wonder why," he said. The CIA is thought to have evidence that Mohamed Atta, one of the suicide bombers, met an Iraqi intelligence officer earlier this year in Prague. Further evidence of Iraqi complicity emerged last week. In the past four months at least three high-ranking Iraqi intelligence officials have visited Pakistan to meet representatives of al Qaeda. Previous visitors have taken large sums of money with them. Other funds have been forwarded through banks in Lebanon. The "operational brains" behind the September 11 attack have been named by an Israeli intelligence official as Imad Mugniyeh, the head of special overseas operations for Hezbollah, and Ayman al Zawahri, an Egyptian and a senior figure in al Qaeda. The official quoted by Jane's, the military journal, said they "were probably financed and got some logistical support" from the Iraqi intelligence service. Mr Zawahri was indicted in New York in 1999 in connection with the 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Mr Mugniyeh organised anti-American attacks in Lebanon in the 1980s, including the suicide truck bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, and led a network of kidnappers who held dozens of Westerners hostage. Although the US is believed to have found no hard evidence linking Baghdad directly to the kamikaze attacks, hardliners in the Bush administration are pushing for Iraq to be targeted in the war on terrorism. Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, has argued, however, that taking on President Saddam immediately could "wreck" the coalition by driving away Arab countries whose support will be needed. Khidhir Hamza, the Iraqi scientist who headed President Saddam's nuclear bomb-making program until he defected, said it was "highly possible" that the Iraqi regime played an indirect role in the attack. ------------------------ Yahoo! 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